Crazy mother-in-law stories.?

haha...my hubby and i met overseas and got married overseas...When we got out of the military we moved to his home state and while we were looking for a house we stayed with his parents..his mom was in ALL our business....It was so bad...if we were up in our room talking about something she would listen in and then when he would go downstairs i would hear her giving her input about it...made me SOOOO mad!! When we would have little disagreements she would make all these rude comments about me to him and i was upstairs when she did so its not like i didnt hear them...We stayed there 2 months and then we bought the first house that we liked because i couldnt take it anymore. its like 30 min away from them...Well I have a chronic illness that i miss a lot of work for and am in the hospital a lot for and we have a 14 month old....One time we asked her if she could take her to a check up for us because my hubby had to go out of town for work and i had just missed several days because of being sick...Well she said it was no big deal and then the night before at 9pm calls me to tell me that she cant do it...Why?? (she doesnt work...she stays home all day or goes to lunch with friends) its because she doesnt want my daughter to associate her with the doctors office!!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS!!! I hung up on her and took her myself...Im like if you spent more time with her then she wouldnt do that...I even picked a day care that was close for her if she wanted to ever go pick up her grandchild and spend time with her. But nope. Then another time she was watching her because she wanted to actually spend the day with her after my hubby said something to her about it, well I go tp pick her up and when i am seeing if my daughter needs to get her meds again that day (she got 1 med twice a day and another one 4 times a day) She mixed up the medications and had given her the 4times a day one twice and the twice a day one 4 times!! I WAS FURIOUS!!!! Needless to say we dont have a very strong relationship but i try to make an effort because it is hubbys mom and my daughters grandmother...And she is now trying to get better about how she acts and what she does...

It sounds like she doesn't have a life other than you and her son. She needs to have friends her own age she can do things with during the day. Maybe a hobby to keep her busy. Right now you and your fiancee are her hobby. It doesn't help that she lives right across the steet either. Why DO you live across the street from her anyway? You really need some space between you, because she doen't have the opportunity to cut the "strings" from her son. In my first marriage, I had some problems with my mother-in-law, but in my second marriage, my mother-in-law lived several hundred miles away. YOur fiancee will always be her little boy as long as she is allowed to treat him and you like children.

I don't really have a long in-depth story, but I know my Ex mother-in-law use to be extremely jealous of my ex and I. Her husband (my ex's dad) became a total loser later in life, and tries to leach off his own family and kids. I could hear her talking to my ex on the phone sometimes, and you could hear it. "He does that for you? You two love eachother that much?" Stuff like that, and you could hear it in her voice.

Well, I guess she got her wish in the end, because things didn't work out. Now my ex is even more like her parents than before; and I'm happy I got out, and took my kids with me.

not a crazy mother-in-law, gut a crazy grandmother-in -law who is the same was she even goes as far as going to yard sales to buy cloths and toys for my kids and says they don't need to have new stuff when she can buy a pair of under wear at a grudge sale for 5 cents

I don't have a crazy mother in law (actually my soon to be mother in law is AWESOME. love ya bev) but it sounds like yours needs some therapy. Obviously you are not the one to tell her this but maybe Doug should. She needs to stop trying to control you guys and live her own life. Good luck! :)

everybody's got a story.. inlaws will be inlaws.. i've seen and been thru some sh|t that i'll never forget or understand why it happened...

best thing is to forget about yesterday and live today cause tomorrow was not promised..

i guess you just kinda overlook their nagginess cause someday they will no longer be there to do it.. everybody gets old and stubborn.. just hope you wont be as bad to your daughter in law..

the way you love their mom is they way you love them..

That doesn't sound too bad, annoying, but not bad. She sounds lonely more than anything else, be glad she likes you at the very least. My mother in law is fine (so far hehe) but my best friend's MIL is the devil himself. She barges into their house at all hours without knocking, comes to pick up her two young kids without asking (ever), never heeds my friends rules (like not feeding them sugar, giving them naps at certain times, potty training guidlines etc), borrows their car (!!) without asking and throws childish fits to her son if my friend says no to letting her take the kids or otherwise denying any ridiculous request she has. Once, she borrowed their car without asking, hit a deer and caused over $1200 in damages....she said because it wasn't her fault the deer ran out in front of her, she shouldn't have to pay the damages! I thought my friend would die of anger & frustration. Her biggest issue is that her husand doesn't defend her 100% of the time. He mostly just stays out of it...which seems to let the MIL think she can get away with murder. On my friend's wedding day, her MIL told her she was a terrible houskeeping and would never keep her son happy (because her son couldn't find his shoes for the wedding...somehow this was my friend's fault). She never said anything positive to her that day, except for "when are you going to give me grandkids?" I had to constantly intervene to keep the bride from tears. When they fell on hard times, they borrowed $1000 from the MIL, to be paid back in monthly payments of $100. When her hubby got a bonus from the Navy, the MIL demanded full payment of the loan - $800 and nearly the entire bonus they were going to use to fix the car that SHE wrecked. Then when SHE fell on hard times, they loaned her $600...which she gambeled at a casino. She actually won over a grand at the slots (can you believe that?) but rather than pay back her son and my friend's loan (as if they could afford it in the first place) she went on a mother freaking cruise. The lady has no class, honesty or a nice bone in her mean, crude, selfish body. It makes me sick for my friend who struggles daily to deal with this lady.

My MIL lived in New York and I lived in SC and yet she managed to plan all of my holidays to exclude my parents who were older and in ill health. She and my SIL and their families would come to my house for weekends often, sometimes every weekend for long periods of time, and for 2 weeks around Christmas and mine and my son's birthdays. Every time, they rarely offered to help or to pay for anything and I did all the cooking, cleaning, etc. during which time, their pets would be tearing up my home and torturing my smaller pets, my neice and nephew would be into everything with no supervision other than me. My MIL and SIL would re-arrange my home to their liking, and they would do everything within their power to cause arguments between me and my husband.

My SIL came one weekend to help me out after I'd just had a major surgery. Her idea of helping me was sitting on her a@@ waiting for my 70 yr. old mother to bring her food and drink and keeping my husband away from me almost constantly by asking him to take her and the kids fishing, swimming, etc. and that's not even the worst of it. Although I felt like I'd been cut in half and sewn back together, they stuck me with her uncontrollable 70 lb. black lab! I hadn't been out of the hospital for 24 hours when they did this.

They showed up at my door once, supposedly for 2 weeks. I was never even told they were coming. They were living with us for 4 months and not contributing one dime, or any effort to cooking, cleaning or even watching their own children. They were not working and I was working full time. Seven people in a 2 bedroom mobile home at that time. Her children tortured my animals, used my furniture as gym sets, climbed my shelves, ruined my son's toys, destroyed every game in the house, were disobedient, mouthy, little brats.

They always made me feel like I didn't belong in my own home and after 20 years of it and the incident with the dog after my surgery, I told his sister that she couldn't bring the dog back to my house. She not only brought the dog back but marched it right into my living room! I finally broke and physically threatened her and told her that MY husband would not be able to stop me from planting her six feet under if she ever disrespected me in my own home again! When her mother called to curse me out about it, I told her the same thing. I told them that was my home and they could all leave and never come back for all I cared and they could take my husband with them! We divorced 2 years later when I caught him with a younger woman this is was the reason he used for cheating. I went through this for 22 yrs. so there are definitely too many stories to write here.